In today’s Lectorial we got a little bit of a pep talk about blogging from Rachel. Although it was a little confronting to hear we weren’t putting in enough work or effort to impress our tuts – a lot of us (myself included) are barely making the minimum.

I was actually struggling with this, trying to figure out how to make 4 posts let alone more! So the lecture slides were helpful to give me ideas and I guess, inspire me. For starters, I need to remember these posts don’t have to be essays. Also, we’re totally allowed to split to different ideas into 2 posts about the same topic – which would have given me more posts in the past, that’s for sure.

I also made the mistake of forgetting I am a Media student after all (or as Rachel put it, ‘for crying out loud’) and the use of videos, photos and other elements along with text (or instead of!) is entirely optional.

Some of the ideas she gave us were things you’ll be seeing a lot more of on my blog starting now. Things like ‘noticing’ media, lectorial and reading reflections, workshops and even discussing my personal media consumption.